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鹜

wù

duck

🔤 Pictophonetic: 鸟 (bird) provides meaning, 敄 provides pronunciation

HSK 14 strokes Uncommon (51%)

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Component Tree i

wù

敄

to put forth effort

💡 Ideographic: To strike 攵 someone with a spear 矛

9 strokes

máo

矛

spear, lance

📷 Pictographic: A spear pointed up and to the right

5 strokes HSK 5

pū

攵

to rap, to tap; script; to let go

📷 Pictographic: A fist made with one's right hand

4 strokes

unknown

Unknown component - strokes not mapped to a known radical

2 strokes

yì

乂

to govern; to control; to nurture

💡 Ideographic: Shears, for cultivating a garden

2 strokes

niǎo

鸟

bird

📷 Pictographic: Simplified form of 烏, a bird

5 strokes HSK 3

Words Using 鹜 (8)

Character

Pinyin

Definition

HSK

to get involved in things which are not one's business

wàiwù

外鹜 ↗

to get involved in things which are not one's business

旁鹜 ↗

pángwù

to be inattentive / to be distracted by sth

pángwù

旁鹜 ↗

to be inattentive / to be distracted by sth

刻鹄类鹜 ↗

kèhúlèiwù

to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

kèhúlèiwù

刻鹄类鹜 ↗

to aim to carve a swan and get a semblance of a duck (idiom) / to fail utterly in trying to copy something / to get a reasonably good, if not perfect, result

驰鹜 ↗

chíwù

to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc)

chíwù

驰鹜 ↗

to move swiftly / to speed / to run after (empty fame, power, money etc)

petty or mean persons

jīwù

鸡鹜 ↗

petty or mean persons

趋之若鹜 ↗

qūzhīruòwù

to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable / an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase

qūzhīruòwù

趋之若鹜 ↗

to rush like ducks (idiom); the mob scrabbles madly for sth unobtainable / an unruly crowd on a wild goose chase